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Nicholas Grider's "Men in Suits"

If you missed it, here's my column from today's paper about Nicholas Grider's solo show at the Portrait Society, which is opening Friday for Gallery Night.

Nicholas is looking for Milwaukee men to be part of his "Men in Suits" series. To the left is the portrait he took of local artist and photographer J.W. Lawson (who used to own and run j.w. lawson Fine Art).

To the right is a newer portrait of Kyle Cherek, the host of Wisconsin Foodie. And, finally, to the lower left is another new portrait of local painter Patrick Farrell.

Grider plans to continually fill one of the walls at Portrait Society with new images during the course of the show. The resulting prints will be available for $200.

Grider is a Milwaukee native who completed his master's degree in art at the California Institute of the Arts in 2008. He is also a writer who holds a master's in communication from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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Mary Louise Schumacher is the Journal Sentinel's art and architecture critic. She writes about culture, design, the urban landscape and Milwaukee's creative community. Art City is her award-winning cultural page and a community of more than 20 contributing writers and artists.

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